{"id":15598,"date":"2010-02-19T10:42:27","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T15:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=15598"},"modified":"2013-12-15T04:06:52","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T09:06:52","slug":"the-minstrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/02\/19\/the-minstrel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Minstrel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Minstrelsy is a form of entertainment, popular from the 1830s till the early 1900s in which white, and later black, people painted their face black and performed a caricature of blackness.\u00a0 The images below (borrowed from Jim Crow History<\/a> and Wikipedia<\/a>) are original advertisements for minstrel shows.<\/p>\n

Haverly’s United Mastodon Minstrels (circa 1877):<\/p>\n

\"Haverly's_United_Mastodon_Minstrels\"<\/p>\n

Oliver Scott’s Refined Negro (1898):<\/p>\n

\"a_26082\"<\/p>\n

Al W. Martin’s Uncle Tom’s cabin (1898):<\/p>\n

\"a_2425\"<\/p>\n

Wm. H. West’s Big Minstrel Jubilee (1900):<\/p>\n

\"800px-Minstrel_PosterBillyVanWare_edit\"<\/p>\n

Postcard (1906):<\/p>\n

\"ImperialMinstrelsPostcard\"<\/p>\n

For more caricatures of black people in U.S. history, see these posts: one<\/a>, twp<\/a>, three<\/a>, four<\/a>, five<\/a>, six<\/a>, seven<\/a>, eight<\/a>, nine<\/a>, ten<\/a>, eleven<\/a>, thirteen<\/a>, fourteen<\/a>, fifteen<\/a>, sixteen<\/a>, seventeen<\/a>, eighteen<\/a>, nineteen<\/a>, and twenty<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And for examples of modern reproductions of these stereotypes (literally), see these: one<\/a>, two<\/a>, three<\/a>, four<\/a>, and five<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For examples and discussion of contemporary \u201cblackface,\u201d see one<\/a>, two<\/a>, three<\/a>, four<\/a>, five<\/a>, and six<\/a>.\u00a0 Also, bugs bunny<\/a>.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Minstrelsy is a form of entertainment, popular from the 1830s till the early 1900s in which white, and later black, people painted their face black and performed a caricature of blackness.\u00a0 The images below (borrowed from Jim Crow History and Wikipedia) are original advertisements for minstrel shows. Haverly’s United Mastodon Minstrels (circa 1877): Oliver Scott’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[253,283,285,1760,1757],"class_list":["post-15598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-history","tag-prejudicediscrimination","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans","tag-raceethnicity-whiteseuropeans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15598"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60455,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15598\/revisions\/60455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}